By What would your week cost?
Set your household and how many evenings the box should cover. We price all six kits from their advertised starting per-portion prices, with delivery included.
How we calculate
Weekly cost = starting price per portion × people × meals + the provider’s delivery fee. Mindful Chef’s £5.99 fee is waived automatically when the box passes £49, exactly as on their site. The yearly figure uses the same typical cadence as our annual guide, about 15 boxes a year, because almost nobody orders 52 weeks straight. Starting prices are “from” prices: pricier recipes cost more.
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Prices and ratings are taken from our own provider reviews (checked July 2026) and our box-size checks of 17 August 2026. Starting per-portion prices are each provider’s advertised “from” price: individual recipes can cost more. Typical year = about 15 boxes, the cadence assumed in our annual cost guide. Welcome discounts are not included.
What the numbers do and do not include
The weekly figure is the provider’s cheapest published route to that many portions: the advertised starting per-portion price times portions, plus the standard delivery fee. It excludes welcome discounts, which are temporary by design, and it excludes the pricier recipes every menu carries. HelloFresh, for example, starts at £3.75 but real-world picks run up to about £8.25 a portion, as we document in our HelloFresh review.
Greyed-out rows are honesty, not errors: not every provider sells every configuration. HelloFresh has no 1-person box and its plan picker currently offers 3 to 5 recipes a week, Green Chef boxes serve 2 or 4, Riverford serves 2 to 4, and Mindful Chef sells 1-, 2- and 4-person boxes with 1 to 4 recipes. Box sizes were verified on the providers’ own sites on 17 August 2026 for our HelloFresh for one person piece.
For the full-year picture at both typical and every-week cadence, see meal kit cost per year. For family-specific maths, see meal kit cost for families.